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Oddfellows Arms, Caldbeck
Oddfellows Arms
John Peel Inn
locality:-   Caldbeck
civil parish:-   Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY32393977
1Km square:-   NY3239
10Km square:-   NY33


photograph
BOT16.jpg  Innsign, coat of arms.
(taken 1.3.2008)  
photograph
BOT15.jpg (taken 1.3.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 37 12) 
placename:-  Oddfellows' Arms
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  John Peel Inn
placename:-  Rising Sun Inn
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"JOHN PEEL INN / / / CALDBECK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72361 / NY3239439774"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public House. Early C19 with late 1920s alterations. Painted roughcast walls with painted V-jointed quoins. Graduated greenslate roof with C20 brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays with lower 2-storey, single-bay extension to rear. C20 double plank doors in painted surround under plain cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars and tripartite sash windows with glazing bars on both floors to right, all in painted stone surrounds. C20 single-storey toilet extension to right side under greenslate roof and similar wall to pub. Side entrance has C17 chamfered surround under shaped lintel. Extension has hipped Welsh slate roof and sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Taken over as part of the Carlisle and District State Management Scheme and returned to private ownership in 1973, when the name was changed from the Oddfellows Arms. Was called the Rising Sun Inn in 1828-9, when John Peel and John Woodcock Graves sang Bonnie Annie there, after writing it at Graves house nearby, see Hugh Machell, John Peel, 1926, p85, illustrated."


photograph
BPU45.jpg  Portrait of John Woodcock Graves, who wrote D'ye ken John Peel.
(taken 7.11.2008)  courtesy of the landlord, Oddfellows Arms

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